Past Exhibitions

2021

SFSU School of Art 2021 Senior Exibition ONLINE

May 12 to August 31

2020

33rd Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition opens online December 5

December 5 to February 28

Platform speaker series: Forensic Architecture founder Eyal Weizman

November 12

SF State School of Art's 2020 Master of Fine Art Thesis Exhibition - Online Now!

June 18 to September 30

SF State School of Art Faculty and Staff Exhibition 2020 now closed

February 22 to March 13

2019

32nd Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition opens on December 4

December 3 to December 12

Copycat Exhibition

September 21 to October 31

2019 MASTER OF FINE ARTS THESIS EXHIBITION

April 20 to May 11

Built Environments

February 23 to April 4

2018

31st annual STILLWELL STUDENT EXHIBITION

December 4 to December 13

ALL TOGETHER NOW

September 22 to October 25

MFA 2018

April 21 to May 12

30th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

February 22 to March 15

2017

Recollected: Photography and the Archive

September 23 to November 16

2017 MFA Thesis Exhibition

April 22 to May 13

Mashrabiya: The Art of Looking Back

February 18 to March 16

2016

29th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 9 to December 1

When I Remember I See Red

September 17 to October 13

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 16 to May 14

Art Faculty Exhibition

February 23 to March 17

2015

PLAY: Process, Activism, Subversion

September 19 to October 15

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 25 to May 16

Hydrarchy: Power, Globalization and the Sea

February 21 to March 19

Luke Damiani: Between Spaces

January 26 to June 15

2014

27th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 12 to December 4

Opening Day Festival

September 28

Allegorical Procedures: Bay Area Collage, 1950-Present

September 20 to October 16

Shenny Cruces: Keys

July 28 to January 5

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 26 to May 24

Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora

March 12

Progressive Proof: Innovative Prints from the Pacific Rim

February 22 to March 27

Josie Iselin: An Ocean Garden

January 27 to July 1

2013

26th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 12 to December 5

Dipti Desai: The Cartography of Asian and Asian Diasporic Art Activism

October 15

John Windle and Thomas Ingmire in conversation

October 3

Creative State Opening Day

September 29

Artist Lecture Series: Jason Jägel

September 26

The Illuminated Library curated by Sharon Bliss with the Fine Arts Gallery

September 21 to October 17

Toru Sugita: Bay Area Lines and Shadows

August 13 to January 15

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 27 to May 25

The Moment for Ink

February 23 to March 23

Bren Ahearn: An Early Sampling

February 1 to August 1

2012

25th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 13 to December 6

SF State Art Department Faculty Exhibition 2012

September 25 to October 18

2012 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 21 to May 11

SmARTspace

February 21 to March 15

2011

24th Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 8 to December 1

Picturing Parallax: Photography and Video from the South Asian Diaspora

September 15 to October 15

2011 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 23 to May 12

México: Política y Poética

February 17 to March 24

2010

21st Annual Stillwell Student Exhibition

November 9 to December 2

2010 Göteborg Book Fair: Focus on Africa

September 23 to September 26

Out of Order

September 18 to October 14

Depth of Surface

February 27 to March 25

2009

Cartographic Imagination

September 19 to October 15

19th Annual Stillwell Student Show

February 24 to March 19

2008

Art Department Faculty Exhibition

September 23 to November 8

2008 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 12 to May 15

CRIMINAL: Art and Criminal Justice in America

February 16 to March 15

2007

18th Annual Stillwell Student Art Show

November 13 to December 11

Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted 1907 - 2007

September 22 to October 20

2007 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 21 to May 16

Witness to War: Revisiting Vietnam in Contemporary Art

February 17 to March 15

2006

2006 17th Annual Stillwell Juried Graduate and Undergraduate Exhibition

November 14 to December 7

Cali/Graffi

September 23 to October 19

2006 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 22 to May 22

BENT: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Scandinavian Art

February 11 to March 16

2005

ECO: Art About the Environment

September 17 to October 15

2005 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 23 to May 19

Afrocuba

February 26 to March 30

2004

2-1/2: Art at the Corner of Two and Three Dimensions

September 18 to October 14

2004 MFA GRADUATE EXHIBITION

April 24 to May 19

Art Department Faculty Exhibition

February 24 to March 18

2003

At Work: The Art of California Labor

September 6 to October 11

2003 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 19 to May 15

Hybrid: Digital/Analog Printmaking

February 22 to March 27

2002

The Erotic Life of Clay

September 22 to October 17

2002 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 20 to May 17

Co-Lab: New Generations, Creative Partnerships in Art & Learning

February 25 to March 21

2001

Conceptual Color: In Albers' Afterimage

September 22 to October 18

2001 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 21 to May 18

Storytellers: The Figure in Time and Space

February 25 to March 22

2000

SFSU Art Department Faculty Exhibition

September 26 to October 19

2000 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 29 to May 20

1999

Chang Dai-chien in California

September 26 to November 20

1999 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 17 to May 19

Metaphor/Commentaries: Artists from Cuba

February 21 to March 24

1998

Sino Ka? Ano Ka?

September 20 to October 21

1998 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 18 to May 20

Unthinkable Tenderness: The Art of Human Rights

February 15 to March 21

1997

Fabric of Life: 150 Years of Northern California Fiber Art History

September 21 to October 18

1997 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 26 to May 23

John Gutmann: Parallels in Focus

February 23 to March 31

1996

Crossing Boundaries: Belfast Contemporary Art from Northern Ireland

September 23 to October 17

1996 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 20 to May 26

Rapture

February 26 to March 21

1995

With New Eyes

September 24 to October 26

1995 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 22 to May 27

Post-Colonial California

February 27 to March 23

1994

Black Power/Black Art

September 19 to October 21

OSMOSIS: 1994 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition

April 25 to May 25